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by cjs_ac 1y ago
> It's not like McDonalds has a sign that says "Made with US Chicken!" on your nuggets. I'm not sure whether this is still the case, but the cardboard boxes that McDonald's packages its burgers in in Australia us
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Aside from the overarching thread of the current crop of CEOs struggling to come to terms with the fact that their empires are now all they'll ever be and it's up to others to continue innovating, I found these quotes interesting:
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Once again, I request that 95% of the world's population change the way it does almost everything, so that I can simplify my code. Thank you for writing this comment; it's cleared up some self-esteem issues I've been having
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WhatThreeWords is a proprietary algorithm and has problems with homophones.
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Me too. Explaining something conceptual is a data serialisation problem, and explaining something out loud (regardless of whether anyone is listening) forces you to organise all the relevant information into a form where each additional pie
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Sure, but there are all sorts of pendulum shifts in the teaching zeitgeist. Spaced repetition was just an app-based example: it's been a few years since I was in the classroom so I'm not sure what the flavour of the year is, but i
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I used to be a schoolteacher, so whenever I read about someone's shiny new EdTech idea, I can't help but think that it's a tarpit idea. Every developed country has a set of professional standards for teachers, and teachers wh
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It's one thing to know that the US, Canada and the Philippines don't use the same paper sizes as the other 190 countries in the world; it's quite another to be given a physical example for the first time in your life.
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If the only thing keeping you on Facebook is sources of specific content, you're looking for a platform that also has sources of that specific content. So it depends on what that content is, doesn't it?
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> Somehow I knew you would keep digging. :) I was the teacher who thought words were fun. Sadly, that doesn't seem to be acceptable any more. :( > Context tells the reader which is being used. That's the thing: if you read t
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by cjs_ac 1y ago
As bad as Merriam-Webster is, you might notice that 'characterised by habitual and unthinking behaviour' is the fourth , i.e. , least common, definition offered, not the first.
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No, reflexive and reflective are synonyms; they are alternative forms of adjectives derived from the Latin verb flecto , flectere , flexi , flexum (note that both English spellings are present in the principal parts).
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> The phrase “reflexive AI usage” is what triggered my strongest reaction. “Reflexive” suggests unthinking, automatic reliance. It implies delegating not just tasks but judgment itself. Does it? When I trained as a schoolteacher, we were
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I think we're on the page of the history book just before the page where the maps suddenly have lots of arrows on them. Governments are pre-emptively building the capability to control communications within their borders, so they'
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The American comic hero is the Stand-Up Philosopher, wittily demonstrating his superiority with every line. The British comic hero is trying his best and failing miserably in a way that is relatable to the audience. Consequently, the only B
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End-to-encryption is a good thing, and so is this website providing information about how to use it. But this particular article represents a particular pathology surrounding freedom . Freedom is supposed to be about doing what you want. I
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Underlying this is a belief that scamming people is the only way to achieve financial stability, that you need to always be hustling. Teenagers went from idolising actors and musicians (who had agents dealing with the money behind closed do
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Royal Armouries Ms. I.33[0] was also used for colouring practice by children, e.g. , in folii 2r - 8v as shown on Wiktenauer[1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Armouries_Ms._I.33 [1] https://wikten
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As a former teacher who's done original research in educational psychology, I'd like to add that educational psychology is just a grab-bag of weak correlations whose discovery was motivated by, 'When I was a teacher, I saw __
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I started my teaching career in 2015 and ended it in 2021, and I saw all the same things then. This phenomenon has little to do with AI, and is a consequence of societies and economies becoming ever more systems-oriented. The Rationalist an
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It's scary how widely this varies between different communities. On Reddit, /r/politics is mostly people acting like they're auditioning for the writers' room on one of those late-night talk shows, whereas /r&#
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Most recent snapshot on Archive.Org: https://web.archive.org/web/20250330134904/https://10000resu...
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Yeah, I could have been clearer there. The browser developers started by catering to the enthusiasts, who switched. The enthusiasts then told the majority of the userbase that the new thing was better, and so the majority switched, causing
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By participating in the community. Content moderation on HN is so much better than on Facebook because dang is one of us, whereas on Facebook, it's a team of people in a developing country, in a different cultural context. Netflix need
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For any given thing or category of thing , a tiny minority of the human population will be enthusiasts of that thing , but those enthusiasts will have an outsize effect in determining everyone else's taste for that thing . For exa
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I'm doing this with the SaaS I'm building (outside of my day job). My URL endpoint functions were directly executing SQL on the database until I decided that I couldn't go on like this, and only then did I write some classes
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30 years ago, computers were a powerful magic, and everyone thought that if you could master the magic, the world was your oyster. Nowadays, computers are a petty magic, like the goblins that spawn in boxes of spare cables and tie them
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This is backed up by Jean Pieget's theory of cognitive development (specifically the transition from the concrete operational stage to the formal operational stage): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Piaget#Stages
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I started my teaching career a couple of years after this blog post was written, and finished it three years ago, and I saw all the same things. We've gone from 'kids need to get to grips with computers' to 'computers ne
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These sorts of people have always existed somewhere , but no one paid any attention to them until now. As a non-American, I'm looking forward to watching the in-fighting that will occur once their attempts to put their competing ideol

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